The Singapore Free Press, 23 July 1947
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Title Section20 1947-07-23 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA !<o. I" 1113 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY M, 1847 PRICE 10 CENT*20 words
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Article, Illustration622 1947-07-23 1 DUTCH SPEARHEAD NEARS JOGJA s» MV <H HIK IR Special Adviser to the Pre- tol the Republic of indent- w&o escaped from Java It s.:u-iD< by air yutu fr-y i— tinarl his journey to India IS— BMMn-i»m, Sharir left b> BO— < rv'inu-ooat at nine ©'clock Calcutta -bound. With -umReuter; U.P.; A.P. - 622 words
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Article183 1947-07-23 1 Free Press Staff Reporter \N additional charge was preferred against Chief Inspector Claude William Roberts, formerly of the Mgaport Food Control Inspectorate, when he appeared in the Second Police Court again this morning. He was charged with abetting the commission of the offence of concealing183 words
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Article231 1947-07-23 1 ACTION BY DUTCH WORKERS AMSTERDAM, Tuesday. DUTCH Trade Union leaders today called on Dutch transport workers and seamen in home and foreign ports to cease ah work connected with transport to Indonesia, directly or indirectly aiding the Dutch military action there. Th*. call was made by the executive of theReuter - 231 words
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Article101 1947-07-23 1 SAIGON, Tuesday. FRANCE will try to establish a provisional national government for the Indo-Chinese Republic of Vietnam headed by Bao Dal, former Emperor of Annam, informed political circles here said. The French Government will refuse to negotiate with Ho Chi Minh. present Vietnam President, they added.Reuter - 101 words
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Article21 1947-07-23 1 Sir Laurence Graferty-Smith, first British High Commissioner to Pakistan, left by air for New Delhi last night— ReuterReuter - 21 words
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Article22 1947-07-23 1 Nokrashy Pasha, Egyptian Prime Minister, arrived in New York yesterday to present Egvpt's case against Britain to UNO.22 words
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Article61 1947-07-23 1 LONDON, Tuesday. THE month-long Anglo-Russian talka to Moscow have ve reached a sta^e at "inch sharp differences have ari•o Russians insisting on Mieat which the Bri- r finds itself una'oie 1 R< iter learns. L tat had quoted unL -t$ from Moscow that f likely to61 words
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Article19 1947-07-23 1 wjoi Ya_.-.._r.. described as c r of the Largest yesterday was sen- R Shanghai— A.P.A.P. - 19 words
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Article118 1947-07-23 1 DEMANDING "a oublic inquiry into the mental condition of the 8.8.C.' 1 because it broadcast a descriotion of a bull-fight, in a programme designed for a "high brow" audience, George Bernard Shaw, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph, says: "In my early days England wasA.P. - 118 words
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Article33 1947-07-23 1 MEMBERS of the French Parliamentary delegation visiting Britain smacked their lips politely yesterday over steaks whale steaks- served at a luncheon given by the British InterParliamentary Union. A.P.A.P. - 33 words
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Article125 1947-07-23 1 Free Press Staff Reporter npHE Singapore C.I.D. last night stopped a gang fight which was scheduled to take place at 9 p.m. in the Serangoon Road area between the two rival secret societies, the "329" Gang and the "Chap Sar Yeo." The C.I.D. has detained125 words
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Article, Illustration34 1947-07-23 1 DR. WU PAAK-SHING, Chinese Consul-General, who has been appointed doyen of the Consular Corps in Malaya. Dr. Wu is now in Kuala Lumpur for a conference with the Kuala Lumpur and Penang Chinese Consuls.34 words
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Article58 1947-07-23 1 THE Colonial Offif e announced yesterday thai the White Papnr on Malaya would be published on Thursday, saying that Mondays cancellation resulted from the Malayan Union Governor's request that one paragraph concerning nationalities should be altered in phraselogy. Officials refuted the suggestion that the cancellation was inU.P. - 58 words
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Article293 1947-07-23 1 UK will compel staggered hours LONDON, Tuesday. THE Brtish Minister of Labour, Mr. George Isaacs, announced today that government compulsion will be applied, ii necessary, to force the introduction of staggered working hours in British industry as a means of averting another fuel crisis this winter. "The well-being of theA.P. - 293 words
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270 1947-07-23 1 Free Press Staff Reporter VORTY thousand tons of Brazilian rice is now on offer in 1 Singapore. The price is $37 a picul. "This is a firm offer", the agent told the Free Press, "but I don't know whether the Killearn Mission, to270 words
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Article60 1947-07-23 1 LLOYD'S Shipping Register reported on Tuesday that Great Britain and Ireland were building more than half of the 3,846,656ton total of new merchant shipping under construction throughout the world on June 30. The report showed British shipyards has under construction merchant ships totalling 2,062,941 grossA.P. - 60 words
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Article, Illustration1039 1947-07-23 2 «_f A^% m _L* T JL Around Singapore Shops f FREE PRESS WOMAN l REPORTER MALAYAN memo*W ries are notorious (my husband tries to disguise his deficiencies by saying that he remembers faces but meets so many people that he forgets names) and with so much to see1,039 words
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Advertisement250 1947-07-23 2 it i* KODAK SIX 2 0 "BROWNIE" SENIOR CAMERA $20 each JThe last lot was sold out immediately it was advertised. To avoid disappointment get yours today. PORTRAITURE Our Special Anniversary Offer of a 8|" x 6§" FREE ENLARGEMENT Pr 99, NORTH BRIDGE ROAD (opposite Actdphi Hotel) < ggaBBHa BH250 words
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Miscellaneous743 1947-07-23 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast (or people born today POKN today, your tempestu. ous and compulsive nature will need plenty of curbing if you are to make the fullest use «f the fin* talents which are yours. You have a keen intelligence and an al?rt and open mind. You have743 words
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Article574 1947-07-23 3 Communists hold large regions NANKING, Tuesday. yigiN-IS s*>rrow" today is not the Yellow River, but a 600- wSk segment in North China stretching from Sheas a borders, north and east of the great waterway, to the gfa stung Peninsula and the Yellow Sea. InA.P. - 574 words
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Article235 1947-07-23 3 Problem girls': doctors advice T*^*! ot "Good Time Girls" has i»*e« published— a 15-page booklet issued by the British ZZ^JSZ&fti?* tled P«»We» Girl." ItL the StWSSS?ttttRSi- to ta stlsate the iriri"^/^"?!^? 1^ social P robl of the "good time ST,L. w ?f flrst spot-lighted in January 1945 when Betty w^t-l235 words
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Article100 1947-07-23 3 WHITBY (Ontario), Tues. |)R. Wen Yuen-chen, Bishop of u the Methodist Church in West China, told "an international missionary conference here: "Communists and their fellow-travellers would like to get rid of GfnersMilmo Chiang Kai-Shek, but he is the only person strong enoagh to hold China together.**U.P. - 100 words
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119 1947-07-23 3 YOUNG KILLING: FILIPINO WOMAN WINS APPEAL MANILA, Tuesday. A FILIPINO woman school n teacher was acquitted by the Court of Appeals here of the brutal killing of Mrs. Prudy Young, American widow of a mining engineer in a guerilla hideout during the war. Two Government attorneys refused to prosecute herA.P. - 119 words
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Article49 1947-07-23 3 The Greek Military Council, anxious to secure the Kingdom's border against leftist irregulars, has decided to ask that the size of the army be increased from its present 130.000 to 200.000, it is learned in Athens. Additional military classes probably would be called to active duty. A.P.A.P. - 49 words
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127 1947-07-23 3 GENEVA, Tuesday. A WARNING against additional British restrictions on the import of American films was sounded at Geneva by Mr. Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, before leaving for England on the last lap of his European tour "British filmsA.P. - 127 words
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Article72 1947-07-23 3 THE US. Army Air force is developing the world's biggest non-atomic bomb a 42,000- lb. "general purposes blockbuster," it was reported in Washington. The bomb will probably be tested within the next few months. Weight of the bomb— 183/4 tons suggests it Is intended for useReuter - 72 words
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Article49 1947-07-23 3 Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters has authorised the Japanese Government to establish Immediately one fixed weather -ship station in the North Pacific about 600 miles east of Northern Honshu and has advised the Japanese Government that as more vessels become available three more stations may be established. ReuterReuter - 49 words
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Article89 1947-07-23 3 PITTSBURGH, Tuesday i|RS. Ruth Harkness, middlem aged dress designer who carried on her husband's Tibetan explorations after he died and brought the first live panda to the United Btates, died in a hotel here today of acute alcoholism Her body was found by a hotel maidU.P. - 89 words
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Article22 1947-07-23 3 Gen. Chiang Kai-shek is planning to spend the summer at Killing, the mountain resort 150 miles upriver from U.P.U.P. - 22 words
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Article46 1947-07-23 3 A search party which left Tokio last week to Investigate reports that stoker Jack Cromarty Angrave of H.M.A.S. Perth was living as a labourer in northern Japan has returned to Tokio. No trace of the missing man was found but investigations are continuing. ReuterReuter - 46 words
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Article94 1947-07-23 3 WARNING BY PENICILLIN DISCOVERER COPENHAGEN, Tuesday. SIR Alexander Fleming, Britain's inventor of penicillin, told microbiologists from 30 countries that overdoses of penicillin might impair the ability of the blood to coagulate and thus be dangerous if applied in diseases which cause bleeding. This discovery was made public for the firstA.P. - 94 words
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140 1947-07-23 3 BEIRUT, Tuesday. THE Syrian President, Shukri AliQuwati, has issued a statement saying that the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine would "certainly be abortive and no Arab country would support it." He made the statement while delegates of the United Nations SpecialU.P. - 140 words
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Article, Illustration43 1947-07-23 3 The Belgian Premier, M. Henri Spaak, unveils the last milestone to mark the path taken by the Allied armies in their liberation of occupied Europe from Normandy to the Belgian Ardennes. The ceremony was attended by Allied military representatives and contingents.43 words
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Article192 1947-07-23 3 FIFTY-YEAR-OLD Arthur Rweborough, secretary of a firm of motor engineers, who was made dumb by a throat operation over a year ago, can xalk again today. After months of practice he ha s learned to talk by swallowing air and forcing it out so that192 words
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Article105 1947-07-23 3 THE Admiralty released names of six members of the Royal Navy who were killed in air accidents on Sunday during a farewell demonstration by a carrier squadron visiting Australian ports. They are: air mechanic Terence Sadler of Coventry, member of the crew of Glory, ordinary seamenReuter - 105 words
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Article101 1947-07-23 3 THE Tokio newspaper Yomiuri claims that Japan's main island of Honshu is gradually moving eastward, with its western sea coast submerging under water at several points at the rate of one foot yearly while its eastern shores are extending by about six feet yearly. The journal basesReuter - 101 words
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Article726 1947-07-23 3 THE experts of 16 European nations, appointed by the Parfg 1 European Economic Conference, have set to work preparing a blue-print for European rccorerj under the shadow of two bis; question marks, writes Router's diplomat to correspondent. The first is: What role does the United StatesReuter - 726 words
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Article105 1947-07-23 3 HE SAVED 100 IN BURNING EXPRESS THE vigilance of a "'g^rmm 1 helped to save a crowded express from Euston to Liverpool from being burned out. The train was travelling at 60 miles per hour between Blisworth and Weedon, Northants, when the signalman at Gayton Loop saw! flames and sparks105 words
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Article54 1947-07-23 3 1 13-YEAR-OLD boy who eluded an escort of detectives and jumped from a train, arrived at his mother's home in Sheffield, 3* miles away. When police got there he had gone. He has escaped 40 times from approved schools and remand homes. Said his mother: "His trouble54 words
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Advertisement175 1947-07-23 3 I _yc_y^_-_-_-l a B The comfort and security scientific glare protection sunr glasses are known through--1 out the world. ORIENTAL OPTICAL CO., (QUALIFIED OPTICIANS) (IO Box 387) (Phone:— 3232 *****2) Head Office:— lB2, Soeth Bridge Road, Branch B4B, North Bridge Road, Singapore. j ■8-M-_H-_H__HM__H__n_P i LATEST IN DESIGN I PLAST175 words
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664 1947-07-23 4 THe Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1947. Why not 'Prefabs' for Singapore? LUMPUR, with its prea\. fabricated housing estate at Sungei Besi. has given a sound practical lead to the rest of Malaya in its approach to one j of the most urgent problems of i the post-war period664 words
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Article1073 1947-07-23 4 Allington Kennard - Allington Kennard by fENSORSHIP has V kept back part of the tragic story of the Rangoon massacre. We know that Aung' San, the strong man of Burma, is dead together with six of his colleagues. They were shot down like dogs by gunmen who brushed aside1,073 words
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Article, Illustration16 1947-07-23 4 A Kashmiri peasant girl. The Kashmir is India's northernmost Province and the nearest to the U.S.S.tt.16 words
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Article86 1947-07-23 4 1. Before how many courts in succession is it possible for an accused person— charged, for example, with murder to appear? 2. Seven years ago John's age (in years.) was double Mary's age (in years). But. in 13 years' time, John's age in years will only be six-fifths Mary's86 words
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Article474 1947-07-23 4 HYDROPONICS the method of growing flowers and vegetables without soil through the use of a few common chemicals, a box of sand or some glass jars has opened a new hobby realm for the home gardener. Now the amateur can grow carnations, roses, tomatoes, strawberries, radishes,A.P. - 474 words
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Article, Illustration739 1947-07-23 4 INDIA 'S PEOPLE ARE RIOT- WEARY A REUTER CORRESPONDENT AUT of the depths of their misery the riot-weary citizens of Lahore and Amritsar, who for monihs past have lived with fear and in real danger, are showing a tendency to turn on their political leaders. When groups of prominent Muslim739 words
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Advertisement55 1947-07-23 4 _B3_l-__l_l_li__i _M mwS* -B _pt_p« 'QB^___Hl UNEQUALLED TONE QUALITY E|l|l|f 1 AND GUARANTEE MODEL 5200 LIMITED STOCK $350.00 JUST ARRIVED. HIS MASTERS VOCE SOLE'MALAYAN DISTRIBUTORS BEST SHEFFIELD E.P.N.S. CUTLERY IN CASK CONSISTING 50 PIECES (6 EACH) $120.00 71 ff (8 $225-00 *7 (8 m J $275-00 S.P.H. de SILVA AQ55 words
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429 1947-07-23 5 Future S pore Municipal Constitution Free rress Man neporter uolvK wiH be heard of the Singapore Municipal I ronmiissioners' much-criticised action in debating future constitution of the Municipality behind I jLd dwffi >vhen Mr# T W# 0ng moves a resolution 'tthe Ommissioners' meeting on429 words
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Article, Illustration208 1947-07-23 5 MAGISTRATE GETS U.K. SCHOLARSHIP ftw Press Stal Reporter IJLNG.APORE'S iTraffic p M igistrate, Mr. Eu p Chyt, and a technical as■staat the rural branch of m Public Work.. Department, Ik. Met T>_.:.g. hare been p• the Colonial Welfare M Deveiopsent Funds ScholarHp. i IttQ leave ."or Britain in fce r.:dcile208 words
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287 1947-07-23 5 7 COUNTRIES FOR WELFARE CONFERENCE Free Press Staff Reporter SEVEN countries are taking part in the South East Asia Social Welfare Conference in Singapore, which wUI occupy six days starting from Aug. 18. Under the sponsorship of Lord Killearn's office, the meetings will be held at Cathay building. Mr. T.P.F.287 words
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Article164 1947-07-23 5 BOYS 9 CLUB TO STAGE CONCERTS Free Press Staff Reporter \,|EMBERS of the Boys* Club, lVl Haig Road, Katong, are busy e, paring to stage shows and concerts be raise mnds for their club. All assistance is being given to che boys by the Stamford Club. an association of the164 words
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Article80 1947-07-23 5 A DECREE nisi to be made absolute in three months was granted Violet Majorie Ainger, by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley at the Supreme Court yesterday, when she petitioned for the dissolution of her marriage with Douglas Slade Ainger, a rubber planter, on the ground of80 words
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Article53 1947-07-23 5 I::vV 4^'respondent 4 S? been submitted wenunem with a I .a; 1 ap a law school in re- S d ror the ap- l erector of Legal V jf Rented as not to discourage ratter to afford r 'al training of gS?? which Li^g" posts in53 words
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Article14 1947-07-23 5 W AS1 W EST TALK Ie -d--raja lu Malayan A "irsdav at 3 1514 words
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145 1947-07-23 5 Ceylonese for Malaya Army explains AN answer to criticism, particularly in the Malay Press, of the scheme announced bv the Army on July 1 for the recruitment of 10,000 members to th? Royal Pioneer Corps (Ceylon Section) and 1.000 members of the Ceylon Corps of Royal Military Police for service145 words
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Article, Illustration54 1947-07-23 5 MR. CHEE TECK SWEE, president of the Singapore Association of Teachers of Dancing. The Association is holding a Charity Night, in aid of the Anti-Tuberculosis Association's Fund, on Aug. 30 in the New World, Great World and Happy World Cabarets. The GovernorGeneral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, is being invited to be54 words
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Article34 1947-07-23 5 SEGAMAT, Tuesday.— A Javanese woman. Rokijah binte Ahmad, of Chan Weng Estate, Bekok, was charged in Segamat court yesterday with having used a Darang against her husband. She was granted $200 bail.34 words
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Article349 1947-07-23 5 THE Army authorities are ignoring an appeal for early release and repatriation made by a battalion of 269 Japanese prisoners to the War Crimes Section, GHQ, SEALF. The reason is all these men are war crimes suspects, having been connected with the building of349 words
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Article33 1947-07-23 5 PENANG, Tuesday.— The question of high lorry charges in Penang was discussed yesterday at a meeting between representatives of the various chambers of commerce, and representatives of the Lorry Drivers' Association.33 words
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Article162 1947-07-23 5 IT'S happened at last Singapore saw its first "flying saucer" on Sunday. Regimental Sergeant Major T. J. Needham (R.E. Troops, Ayer Raja Road) writes to the Free Press:— "It was seen at approximately 6.45 on Sunday night. The saucer appeared to me to be flying with162 words
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Article, Illustration24 1947-07-23 5 MKS. C. K. MIAO, who provided the piano accompaniment at the recital given by two Chinese musicians at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Sunday.24 words
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349 1947-07-23 5 LOUIS PIERRE GARDE, a Lieutenant Commander m the French Navy, who recently arrived in Singapore in a naval tanker, admitted possession' of seven pounds of opium for importation in Singapore in the District Court yesterday. He was sentenced "to a day's rigorous imprisonment and349 words
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162 1947-07-23 5 TH E Singapore Ami -Tuberculosis Association is taking up a booth at the Trade Fair in the Great World Amusement Park opening on Saturday as the beginning of its city-wide campaign against T.B. Mr. L. Cresson of the Association in conjunction with the Government Health162 words
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270 1947-07-23 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S first social survey will be conducted in •December, but a trial "survey" is being carried out by investigators specially sent out by the Social Welfare Department to the villages and kampongs to collect data which will be useful270 words
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Miscellaneous166 1947-07-23 5 i MWLmmßm&*mßmfs^^ '4L jft j jk^^mk j a i i Js j| f JL ,^S^ _._.j,._-j- I __.u_e n_.ai_y io tons oi --._p-_:e ->ock: MangOla Id _0». A SHIPMENT of 110 motor cars— j licuors from Bordeaux. coal Plant: Empire Nairn 411 'arrfve 3 in'sfngipoTe F °tTw At the Wharves166 words
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Article482 1947-07-23 6 BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT UAILED as the first "psychological drama ever to be filmed in Technicolor ir, starring Gene Tierney in her most important role to date, Cornel Wilde in his first modern romantic part, and Jeanne Grain in her first adult screen assignment, "Leave Her482 words
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Article181 1947-07-23 6 THE Farmer's Daughter (Rex, tomorrow) belongs to that ever-popular comic genus ("Mr. Deeds" is, perhaps, the best-remembered example) which mixes Cinderella and satire. On this occasion it is Lorelta Young (representing the forces of truth and simplicity) who makes good and, in the process, coniounds and confuses ihe181 words
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Article162 1947-07-23 6 1. A person accused, say, of i murder or any other serious crime I (1) must first be brought before a magistrate's court; if a prima facie case is established he will be remanded (2) for trial by a judge of the High Court. If convicted he may162 words
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Article395 1947-07-23 6 ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE OPEN AN American motion picture studio aft last has dared to bring the question of intolerance and anti-Semitism into the open, and with startling frankness. This is the first time in the memory of veteran cinema executives that a Hollywood producer has presented to full scrutiny allA.P. - 395 words
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Article, Illustration16 1947-07-23 6 Esther Williams who will be seen in Singapore soon in the M.GJ-L film "Easy to Wed."16 words
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Article547 1947-07-23 6 AMERICAN FILM CHALLENGER AMERICAN films can no longer claim to be unchallenged box office winners and the models upon which the much younger film industries of otlur nations must base their ideas if they are to have any chance of success. This fact emerges clearly from the results of theReuter - 547 words
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Article123 1947-07-23 6 WITH Judy Garla^l Margaret O'Brw their very .-st, ,l Mee:k St. Loui.-," the n ev t^ color mu-ca present Metro-Go. c wyn-Maver morrow at the iiba* Theatre, hits a new entertainment. "Meet Me in St. Louir s of those rare picture! ib everyone's de,a, Iromgm* little sister, because123 words
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Article334 1947-07-23 6 yULNERABILITY and the rank of the suits play a large part in deciding what to do when partner's opening bid is doubted for a takeout. In many cases the opener's partner can tell the story by one bid but with North's hand in this deal, one bid334 words
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Miscellaneous130 1947-07-23 6 MdndrdkC Exclusive to tho Singapore Free Press in Malaya j P_>l Ws/yfM I1 1 DON'T KNOW. YOU SEEM AI I I'M LEAVING LOTHAft AT YOU ft ]MEAN WHILE, W A LITTLE*] "^U^mr^^^l^r^M LITTLE PALE -OR J MOUSE WHILE WE'RE OUT. I'VE. NARDAJN r. MORE-AND\ j i JANI Exclusive to the130 words
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Article438 1947-07-23 7 Cook Goddard Skittle Northants a LONDON, Tuesday. noli! Gloucester and Middlesex, the counties leading the D earrenl championship table, won their matches ending tM1 (,h»ut ester beating Northamptonshire by 84 runs Middlesex beating Essex by 102 runs. se i-'est victories advance Gloucester to 152 points oo438 words
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342 1947-07-23 7 THE South Africans SHEFFIELD, Tuesday. where «wS^wifS^_S f S da s play her€ easily after the rain madJ^X_ ap,tc lich dried out were the South Mans 2M?.!_i m fS^ blc Final scor <* Yorkshire 308 Cans 279 and 147 '<» three wickets. n««s Y aSffioc%^^342 words
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Article83 1947-07-23 7 rrTTD-n LONDON, Tuesday puRTHER steps to bring Russia into the London Olympic games next year were expe^ed to be taken at Mosc:w over the weekend. Lord Burghley, former British Olympic athlete and president o the International Amateur Athletic Federation, accepted an invitation to attend a festival83 words
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50 1947-07-23 7 T TORONTO, Tue.day. j Hn, Canadian open golf championship was won on Sunday, by B.bby Looke of South Africa with a record-breaking 258. This score was 16 under par for the 72 holes and three better than I the tournament record.- A I I50 words
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462 1947-07-23 7 OMKUH FOR ENGLAND RI-WI FRS CONTINUE. POLAND 8 255P 11 Tuesday. F I I^""** search for NtTfctS "2J year is con- fa, nai of two new poath a;: t€am to meet »-LeedV:«\f: tne fourt^ rest Xi -'>am a "r^p h t P i nly cha nges in fite the V:;462 words
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Article59 1947-07-23 7 STOCKHOLM. Tuesday. JERSEY Joe Walcott, the! American heavyweight, has j cabled his acceptance of an offer; to fight Sweden's heavyweight champion. Olle Tandberg, in I Stockholm in September. It is uncertain, however, whether Tandberg will accept this date, since he has plans for a i59 words
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434 1947-07-23 7 By Archie Quick 1V 4U LONDON, Tuesday. IF anything were needed to force British boxing to a new I low, the world flyweight championship contretemps in Glasgow was lhat vehicle. More th__n a fiasco, it was flagrant niching of public money. I was only434 words
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Article103 1947-07-23 7 A team of Singapore Chinese swimmers will probably visit Syd- ney, Australia at the end of the lyear for a swimming and water polo tour. i The Singapore Chinese Swimming Club has written to the NewSouth Wales Amateur Swimming Association proposing the tour The N.S.W.103 words
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Article, Illustration53 1947-07-23 7 Pictures taken at the Stadium j yesterday show (too) Hardman just deflecting the ball round I the post off a hard drive by the R.A.F. right-inside Revill and, below, Loom, K.A.F. right full- i back and Moss, Navy left- I winder, j n a tussle53 words
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Article240 1947-07-23 7 GHQ Second Echelon defeated 19 Air Formation Signals by three wickets in a game of cricket played at Changi Signals won the toss and elected to bat on a good cricket. They openied badly, three wickets falling with only 14 runs on the board, but240 words
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Article176 1947-07-23 7 No. 1 British Transit Camp de--1 feated the R.A.S.C. Training School at Nee Soon on Sunday Scores are: RASC TRAINING SCHOOL R se b Gant 0 Jones b McKenzie 4 Lawton b McKenzie 1 Starr c Crooks b Gant 19 I.fg~e c Haynes b McKenzie 1176 words
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Article144 1947-07-23 7 In a game of badminton at the Gan Eng Seng School Hall, the Olympic Athletic Party defeated the C.Y.M.A. (Portuguese Mission) by seven games to nil. Results. O.A.P. players mentioned first: Tan Liang Peng beat Stephan jHolmberg 15r-2, 15 4; Sin Man Choy beat Michael Hendroff144 words
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Article95 1947-07-23 7 NO. I. British Transit Camp will hold a sports meeting on PriI day, Aug. l, and Saturday, Aug. 2 at Nee Soon. Events will include a mile medley I (2 x 220. 1 x 440 and 1 x 880) and are open to all service units in95 words
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Article807 1947-07-23 7 By Our Soccer Reporter Bi»tF. 4 Navy 0 UARDMAN, Navy goalkeeper, was the hardest worked man on the field yesterday, but all his brilliant efforts *hich won rounds of cheers from a small but enthusiastic crowd could not prevent the R.A.F. from winning by four807 words
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Article120 1947-07-23 7 Sing Tao Win All Bangkok Matches IrpHE Sing Tao football team, X after winning all their four games in Rangoon, left by air for Bangkok on July 13, where they played three matches. On July 16. they beat the Bangkok University team by ten goals to nil and on July120 words
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Page 7 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous187 1947-07-23 7 Free Press Crossword No. 153 1. Old-fashioned keyed musical instruments like harnsichord en a River; strait separating Brooklyn on Lon_r lsi_Vrt »«J fAS_?__ (7) 6 Bronx, New York (4). 8 and 16 DcZ c__SL_^ i*^"*?. British Colony on tte NE. co_£ It^A^tcTm &*«_%l_f ___S of a circle (7), 11. St.187 words
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Article30 1947-07-23 8 Free Press Staff Reporter THREE Chinese, one armed, waylaid a couple ln Park: Road, Singapore, at 8 p.m. yesterday and robbed them of $107 cash and jewellery.30 words
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Article226 1947-07-23 8 NEW YORK, Tuesday. THE Dutch GoTi-font told ike United Nations today in a memorandm explaining the present military action in Indonesia that the Indonesian Republican Government was "unprepared or unable" to fulfil the Linggadjati agreement providing for a united states of Indonesia. The truce concluded226 words
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Article, Illustration21 1947-07-23 8 Spanning the River Thames at Chelsea, the Albert HOME m Brid e now beta* painted. It was last painted in mwWMm21 words
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185 1947-07-23 8 STANFORD TO BE SENT BACK TO AUSTRALIA Free Press SUIT Reporter THE 35-year-old Australian, George Stanford, alias Thomas John Stanley Hammond alias Stanley Hammond who has been charged under the Fugitive Offenders Act of 1881 was ord2red to be returned to Australia by the First District Court Judge. Mr J.185 words
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Article236 1947-07-23 8 LONDON, Tuesday. A PRIEST gently pressed through the crowds and entered Waterloo railway station today. A few minutes later, squads of police poured in after him. The district was cordoned off and detectives wi n lowed through thousands of travellers searching for hin For the clergyman236 words
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570 1947-07-23 8 Gunmen fire at funeral hall RANGOON, Tuesday. THE Burma police said tonight that they had secured "positive evidence" in the plot which led to the assassl- r nation on Saturday of U Aung San and his colleagues. More arrests are reported today of followers570 words
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Article74 1947-07-23 8 WEATHER Fair today WEATHER report for the next If 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F: Fair with rood bright intervals. Wind: Light south-easterly. Sunset 6.42 p.m., sunrise C.35 a.m. Moonrise 11.59 a.m., moonset 11.30 p.m. Temperatures: Max. 91.6 dec. F.. min. 80.5 de*. F. Relative humidity percentages: Yesterday at 7.3074 words
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165 1947-07-23 8 BAN ASKED ON NOTICES OF T.B. CURES Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Tuesday AT the meeting of the Malayan Union Tuberculosis Advisory Board held in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, it was decided to recommend that the government should prohibit the advertising and sale of preparations claiming to be cures165 words
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Article42 1947-07-23 8 FfUGITIVE charges against Lady Iris Mountbatten were dismissed in New York yesterday after the court had been notified that a Washington charge of parsing bad cheques totalling £4C.*s had been withdrawn. Lady Iris did not appear in court. A.P.42 words
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325 1947-07-23 8 LONDON. Tuesday. pHE Secretary^of State^for the, 1 Colonies, Mr. Arthur Creecn rones, told the House of Commons x>day that what would happen to .he 4.500 Jewish refugees who were Drevented from entering Palestine I llegally would be a matter entire- y for the French authorities.325 words
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Article162 1947-07-23 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. THE kidnapping in April of the Penang Settlement Advisory, Councillor, Mr. Kee Hup Hor. fr.ra his residence in Sungei Bakap w^s recalled in the Penang Third Magistrate's Courl tc_ay. Two Chines Yew Kam and j Teoh Kung, were charged with162 words
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Article68 1947-07-23 8 lAPAN exported £485,000 worth of goods during June and imparled products valued at £L;G0.0OO, the Japanese Trade Board announced yesterday. Chef imports were foodstuffs, j fertilisers, salt and petroleum. Th__y included nearly 2,500,000 pcunds of Australian wool. The United Kingdom, China, the United States and the68 words
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Article84 1947-07-23 8 IT was officially announced in Tokio yesterday that the Japanese Government had been authorised to distribute 279,000 n.etric tons of imported food and 87,000 tons of indigenous rice now stored as a substitute for imports. The distribution will take place over a period of six weeks84 words
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Article224 1947-07-23 8 LONDON, Tuesday. ACCORDING to the Star, the! Duke of Windsor, pinched for cash, has started writing full- j time on his memoirs. The Duke| also intends to write a movie script about the life ani reign of his grandmother Queen Victoria, i when the memoirs224 words
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Article131 1947-07-23 8 ASPECIAI Market corr^J fives tb* prices of nw 11 jum toda> a* follow* J Bay*** f No. 1 a.S.S Loo*. N« 1 R.S.S too t in bales Au_i< ji JNo 2 RSS i J in bale* Adjust No 3 R.S.S Um la bates Auru«i 31 Toae131 words
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Article243 1947-07-23 8 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THE United States has agreed that the non-discrimination clause of the British loan agreement shall not apply to British trade with non-self-governing areas of the Colonial Empire, it was learned authoritatively tonight. The concession means that Britain will be able to compensate herself for243 words
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Article, Illustration509 1947-07-23 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON. Tuesday, j LITTLE business was transacted on the Mock Exchiif today and there was even lack of inquire says Res* financial correspondent. Consequently pr.tes sagpit] most sections. The market for British Government sea ties was unable to provide a lead, prices easing509 words
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